Thank you, Howie Fischer, for asking follow up questions to Tom Horne about his asinine hotline. Great reporting. Watching the “press conference” is recommended. Mr. Fischer admirably challenged Horne and members of the Scottsdale Unified School District governing board about the efficacy of the hotline as well as their bogus (my word) objections to any curriculum that mentions the existence of race or racism. For realz...listen to the conference...Horne essentially argues that a teacher can talk about racism if it happened a long time ago- just not if it happened more recently. 🤷🏼♀️ I would love it if a reporter could ask Horne at the next presser what time period is acceptable. Civil war? Ancient Mesopotamia? Brown v Board of Ed? Can teachers talk about racism if it’s biblical? The Horne’s and Warner’s and Carney’s have a lot of opinions about what our children should not read or hear or learn and it’s interesting that I know very little about two of the three. Where did Warner and Carney attend school? What did they study? Did they attend college? Trade school? I wonder if their fear of learning and curriculum arises from their unfamiliarity with formal study?🤷🏼♀️
Great question. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a bio to know. For governing board members who constantly harp on about academics and not caring about whether students are emotionally supported at school- only the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic- one would think their own academic resume would be easy to find. 🤷🏼♀️
Ugh. The Tamale Bill. People love street food, and homemade Mexican foods is worlds better than Taco Bell. That said, the trick is to balance public health with consumer demand. Does the new Tamale Bill at least include enough regulation to track an E. Coli outbreak this time around? Also, wouldn't the required registration for cottage food preparation be an immigration trap for some people? The original Tamale Bill had lots of problems.
Thank you, Howie Fischer, for asking follow up questions to Tom Horne about his asinine hotline. Great reporting. Watching the “press conference” is recommended. Mr. Fischer admirably challenged Horne and members of the Scottsdale Unified School District governing board about the efficacy of the hotline as well as their bogus (my word) objections to any curriculum that mentions the existence of race or racism. For realz...listen to the conference...Horne essentially argues that a teacher can talk about racism if it happened a long time ago- just not if it happened more recently. 🤷🏼♀️ I would love it if a reporter could ask Horne at the next presser what time period is acceptable. Civil war? Ancient Mesopotamia? Brown v Board of Ed? Can teachers talk about racism if it’s biblical? The Horne’s and Warner’s and Carney’s have a lot of opinions about what our children should not read or hear or learn and it’s interesting that I know very little about two of the three. Where did Warner and Carney attend school? What did they study? Did they attend college? Trade school? I wonder if their fear of learning and curriculum arises from their unfamiliarity with formal study?🤷🏼♀️
Did they graduate high school?
Great question. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a bio to know. For governing board members who constantly harp on about academics and not caring about whether students are emotionally supported at school- only the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic- one would think their own academic resume would be easy to find. 🤷🏼♀️
Ugh. The Tamale Bill. People love street food, and homemade Mexican foods is worlds better than Taco Bell. That said, the trick is to balance public health with consumer demand. Does the new Tamale Bill at least include enough regulation to track an E. Coli outbreak this time around? Also, wouldn't the required registration for cottage food preparation be an immigration trap for some people? The original Tamale Bill had lots of problems.